Drool as we may over that line up (ah, that it could be recreated now!), it's the 1986 bit that's important. Rarely have such superb musicians found themselves so subordinate to both technology and fashion. ‘Magnetic Love’ is disco funk of epic proportions with Erskine's drums all synthed up. Synths, indeed, dominate the palette: behold and weep at Mainieri's delirious synth take on ‘In A Sentimental Mood’; even more boggling is the synthetic ‘Cajun’. Brecker, of course, cuts through time and again, but this is him in anthemic mode, little soul, less bop. The one cut that does maximise the technology is the eerie ‘Beirut’ when Bailey also remembers he's not just a Pastorious clone. Mainieri would soon lead the band to acoustic pastures new, but even those with a masochistic completist bent or those of musicological interest will struggle with Warner's budget reproduction, which simply compresses the original sleeve notes to a typeface that's as small as the shoulder pads of the era were enormous.